Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Population 1,596: a town settled in 1960.
Victory Gardens’ best subject grade is an A for health; its weakest is a D for schools. 27% of residents live below the poverty line in Victory Gardens, above both New Jersey’s towns (6.1%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). On incomes, just 30 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do worse. No town in New Jersey scores lower than Victory Gardens on civic life. Victory Gardens has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Victory Gardens beats most towns.
Where Victory Gardens’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Victory Gardens is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,085 in 1960, 1,582 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 2007 and 3 maps from 1888 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Victory Gardens. Close and well known come first.
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw31 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw30 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw31 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw30 mi MuseumNational September 11 Memorial & MuseumMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Victory Gardens, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Victory Gardens.
Against the New Jersey average, Victory Gardens comes out ahead on 8 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 4. For adults 18 to 64 locally, the share who have no health insurance is 18%. Among adults locally, 8.3% smoke cigarettes and 14% report frequent mental distress.
| Victory Gardens | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.3% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| What stands out | Victory Gardens | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 3% | 5.1% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.5% | 7.5% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.2% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In the year to September 2026, typical home values slipped 9.2%. A third of households live in a home they own in Victory Gardens. Victory Gardens’ midpoint rent stands at $1,518 a month.
| Victory Gardens | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 33% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,518 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Federal aid has come to Victory Gardens households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2011. Compared with 86% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage locally is lower. Expected losses in Victory Gardens break down as 62% from inland flooding and 11% from cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Jobs in Victory Gardens grew by 263 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 403. Of the 469 New Jersey towns we compare, none has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Victory Gardens. The middle household income locally is $63,000. For half of commuters, work is under 15 miles away.
| Victory Gardens | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $63,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.1% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A winter brings about 28 inches of snow, with January nights at 19° and July afternoons at 84°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
7 within 15 miles of the center of Victory Gardens
About 4 of every 100 Victory Gardens residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, US
Victory Gardens is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,582, an increase of 62 (+4.1%) from the 2010 census count of 1,520, which in turn reflected a decline of 26 (−1.7%) from the 1,546 counted in the 2000 census. Victory Gardens is Morris County's smallest municipality, measured both by size and population, and its most densely populated. Additionally, the borough is the state's fourth-smallest municipality by area.
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One town shares a border with Victory Gardens.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory Gardens | — | — | C | — | D | A |
| Randolph Township | #101 | A | C− | — | A− | A+ |
Victory Gardens has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Victory Gardens and Randolph Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Victory Gardens with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 3.4 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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